ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK: Oracle steals a march on Amazon in Africa
The battle for the cloud is not only an American phenomenon. It is about to be played out in Africa.
The battle for the cloud is not only an American phenomenon. It is about to be played out in Africa as software giants refine their strategies for staking a claim in the fastest-growing segment of the IT world. The market is holding its breath for an announcement by Amazon Web Services that it will, for the first time, locate data centres in Africa. Amazon has hinted for more than a year that it would be coming to South Africa. But the industry was rocked in May this year when, instead of AWS, it was Microsoft that announced plans for local data centres for its cloud services. To rub salt into the wound, it said it would locate these in both Johannesburg and Cape Town - home to the Amazon developer team that built its cloud-hosting platform. Now, Amazon is about to face an even more serious challenge.At the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference in San Francisco this week, Oracle founder and executive chairman Larry Ellison declared that his company was going after AWS's market dominance....
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